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Research Overview

I am a historian of anti-colonial visual culture and a Teaching Fellow in Modern History. My first monograph, entitled Writing against Empire, applies a book history approach to twentieth-century empire and in particular the Pan-African movement of 1930s and 1940s Britain.

My research centres upon the role of political publishing and cultural communication in anti-colonial movements and looks at the connections, intersections, and differences between varying projects, mediums, and politics from across the imperial world. I have written about the editorial career of Indian independence activist V. K. Krishna Menon and the role of Pan-African journals under Guyanese activist Ras T. Makonnen.

I co-curated an exhibition entitled 'Cold War and 'Other Narratives'' in collaboration with the Imperial War Museums that opened at Dilston Grove in early 2026. I exhibited my own art-piece Mapping the colonial camera within this exhibition, and discuss the process in a recent peer-reviewed article published by PARSE.

I am currently working on a new book project focusing on the 'feeling' of solidarity within cross-imperial anti-colonial activism in early twentieth-century Europe, centring on the League Against Imperialism. This short-lived anti-colonial activist group counted many interwar internationalists as members, such as independent India's first prime-minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesia's first president Sukarno, Kenyan president Jomo Kenyatta, and millionaire communist media baron Willi Münzenberg, as well as well-known public figures like physicist Albert Einstein and author Upton Sinclair.

Publications

Monographs:

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Peer-Reviewed Articles:

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Other Writings:

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• '‘When the four corners of this cocoon collide’: A Brief Global Overview of Pan-Africanism, 1788-Present', Global History and Culture Centre, University of ÌÇÐÄTV. Link opens in a new window

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Podcasts/Video:

• Podcast for the ÌÇÐÄTV History HourLink opens in a new window, student outreach radio programme, , November 2025.
• Academic Comment for section on Brutalist Architecture for 's  documentary, October 2025.
• Podcast for queer/disrupt with producer for , Dr Robert Philipson, , February 2022.

Outreach

• Co-Curator, Dilston Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, February 2026.

Co-curated the , and exhibited own original visual piece, Dilston Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, opened February 2026.

• Academic Advisor and Supporting Research Fellow, IWM North, January-October 2025.

Consulted for IWM North's '' entitled '' to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the 1945 Pan-African Congress, opened October 2025.

• Academic Advisor, Imperial War Museums, January-October 2025.

Consulted on the exhibition , opened October 2025.

• Consultant author for , May 2023-January 2025.

Worked as a consultant author for Brillder, creating bespoke history learning resources for GCSE and A-Level students who aspire to attend university.

Acted as the historian for George Padmore in online question and answer sessions with school children aged 10-18, speaking about the role of Black activists and figures in British history.

Conferences and Comments

• Speaker, , University of Cambridge, Spring 2027.

‘Writing within Empire, Writing against Empire: Pan-Africanism in 1930s Britain’.

• Speaker, , French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), University of Chicago, and Newcastle University, January 2027.

'Writing against Empire: Jomo Kenyatta and Implicit Pan-African Print'.

• Speaker, Global History and Culture Centre Welcome Reception and book launch, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, October 2026.

Writing against Empire book launchLink opens in a new window, discussant: Dr Christian Høgsbjerg (University of Brighton)

• Discussant for Global South Network seminar, University of Leicester, May 2026.

'', speaker: Say Jye Quah (University of Cambridge)

• Discussant for Global History and Culture Centre seminar, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, November 2023.

'Knowledge Frontiers: The Sixth Pan African Congress and the Literature of Resource Sovereignty', speaker: Dr Christine Okoth (KCL)

• Conference paper, ÌÇÐÄTV Postgraduate Conference, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, May 2022.

'Printing Pan-Africanism: The Black Jacobins and the Early Political Thought of C.L.R. James'

• Conference paper, Global History and Culture Centre ECR Workshop 'Mobile Bodies' (in conjunction with Prof. Radhika Singha's (JNU) visit to ÌÇÐÄTV), University of ÌÇÐÄTV, May 2022.

'V. K. Krishna Menon: An Editor in Britain'

• Discussant for European History Research Centre seminar, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, October 2020

'News Networks in Colonial Algeria', speaker: Dr Arthur Asseraf (Cambridge)

Research Interests

• Book history
• Global histories of empire
• Histories of anti-colonialism
• History of emotions
• History of political thought
• Queer histories
• Visual media and photography

Centres and Memberships

Fellow of the (FHEA)

Associate Fellow of the

Convenor of the Modern British History Reading GroupLink opens in a new window

Member of the Global History and Culture CentreLink opens in a new window, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

Member of the Manuscript and Print Cultures Research GroupLink opens in a new window, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

Postgraduate Student, European History Research CentreLink opens in a new window, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

Awards

April 2026: Nominated for a ÌÇÐÄTV Award for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTELink opens in a new window)

January 2025: One of two articles 'highly commended' in The Historical Journal's ECR article prize

2019-2023: University of ÌÇÐÄTV, History Department Doctoral Scholarship

Academic Profile

2024-present: Teaching Fellow in Modern History, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

- Co-convenor and lecturer for HI180 - Britain in the Twentieth Century: A Social HistoryLink opens in a new window

- Seminar tutor and guest lecturer for HI2D4 - Race, Racism, and Resistance in Modern BritainLink opens in a new window

- Seminar tutor and guest lecturer for HI177 - A History of Africa from 1800Link opens in a new window

- Teaching Fellow Representative for Social Inclusion and Diversity CommitteeLink opens in a new window

2024, July: Lecturer, ÌÇÐÄTV Summer School, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

2023-2024: Sessional Tutor in History, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

2022-2023: Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant in History, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

2019-2023: PhD in History, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, supervisors: Professor Daniel BranchLink opens in a new window & Dr James PoskettLink opens in a new window

2018-2019: MA in Modern History, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

2015-2018: BA (Hons) in History, University of ÌÇÐÄTV

Past Teaching

2025/26

Convenor of HI180 - Britain in the Twentieth Century: A Social HistoryLink opens in a new window

Convenor of HI2D4 - Race, Racism, and Resistance in Modern BritainLink opens in a new window

Convenor of HI2G7 - Contemporary Britain in Historical Perspective (WIISP module)Link opens in a new window

Other roles include:

Academic Writing Adviser

Teaching Fellow Representative for Social Inclusion and Diversity CommitteeLink opens in a new window

2024/25

HI153 - Making of the Modern WorldLink opens in a new window

HI2E1 - Historiography I: Methods and Theories in their Historical Context, 1750-c.1990Link opens in a new window

HI2E2 - Historiography II: Recent and Emerging Trends in History Writing, 1990 to TodayLink opens in a new window

2023/24

HI153 - Making of the Modern WorldLink opens in a new window

2022/23

HI180 - Britain in the Twentieth Century: A Social HistoryLink opens in a new window

HI153 - Making of the Modern WorldLink opens in a new window